The Reagan Years

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The Reagan Years

• 1981-1989

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1980 Election

• Republican Ronald Regan defeats Dem Jimmy Carter
• Conservative Revolution
• Reagan was either loved or hated
• Great Speaker

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Characteristics

• Traditional American values
• Hard work, Family, God patriotism
• Wanted smaller government
• Less taxes, less rules, less social programs
  Reaganomics

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Important Events

• Air Traffic Controllers Strike
• Appointment of Sandra Day OConnor to Supreme
  Court
• Recession of 1981-82
• Reelected in 84

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Challenger 1986
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The Mets Win! The Mets Win!
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I want my MTV
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Deregulation

• Cut taxes lessened rules for corporations
• Ex. Automobile Safety Regulations
• Businesses supported his policies
• Labor Unions opposed his policies

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Survives Assassination Attempt

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Iran-Contra Scandal

• US sends weapons to Contras in Nicaragua
• Used from sale of weapons to Iran
• Colonel Oliver North
• No proof of President's involvement ever found

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Showdown w/ USSR

• Increased Military Spending
• Forced Soviet Union into arms race
• Soviets run out of
• Reagan Gorbachev (Soviet Leader) sign Nuclear
  Arms Reduction Treaty (1987)

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Other Reagan Info

• Tried to balance Federal Budget but failed
• Trade Deficit more imports than exports
• Intervention on Central America
• Rising tide of terrorism
• War on Drugs Nancy Reagan, Just Say No
• Vetoed sanctions on South Africa but overridden
  (Apartheid)

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Legacy

• Decreased Taxes Cut Social Programs
• Helped end communism in Russia spent billions
  on military
• Intervened in LA and Afghanistan to stop
  communism aided brutal people

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